Collingwood (New Zealand)
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Charming Collingwood offers a caravan park, several motels, restaurants, a small grocery, a chocolate shop, village hall, library, a hostel, post office and is the jumping off point for one of the top companies offering tours of Farewell Spit.
Get in
Carry on driving on the main road from Onekaka.
Golden Bay Air provides flights to Wellington and Nelson to Takaka Airfield than a taxi to Collingwood.
Tracknet for non-scheduled bus for bushwalking
Golden Bay Air provides flights to Wellington and Nelson to Takaka Airfield than a taxi to Collingwood.
Tracknet for non-scheduled bus for bushwalking
See
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Collingwood Museum
address: Tasman StSmall museum in the former council offices (built in 1910). Wharariki BeachA spectacular beach close to Cape Farewell. Its Archway Islands feature in a Windows 10 wallpaper photo looking out from a sea cave.
Do
Heaphy Track (28 km south) for a typical 4 to 5 day tramp or in winter mountain bike ride.
Abel Tasman Track
Scenic flights by Golden Bay Air around Golden Bay, the spit and the local mountains.
Abel Tasman Track
Scenic flights by Golden Bay Air around Golden Bay, the spit and the local mountains.
Buy
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address: 54 Beach RdHandmade chocolates
Eat
The Courthouse Cafe
MAD Cafe
Collingwood Tavern
MAD Cafe
Collingwood Tavern
Drink
Collingwood Tavern
Sleep
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phone: +64 3 524-8624address: 10 Gibbs Rd
- Pioneer Motel
- Collingwood Motor Camp
Go next
- Pakawau, with one of the best beaches in New Zealand, a little further northwest, does have a small grocery, a restaurant, a caravan park and nice seaside community of homes.
- Puponga beyond even Pakawau, is a pale shadow of its former coal-mining self and is the last settlement of any kind before reaching the world-famous beauty of Farewell Spit. It has a small backpackers and a café at the base of the spit.
- Kahurangi National Park and the 4–6 day Heaphy Track walk to the West Coast